Necrotizing bronchial aspergillosis in a patient with acute myelocytic leukaemia: a case report

This case report describes a patient with acute myelocytic leukaemia, who developed a necrotizing bronchial aspergillosis. This is an uncommon, new form of invasive aspergillosis, which is mainly seen in the heart-lung transplantation setting and has only been reported once in another patient with leukaemia. Neither amphotericin B nor liposomal amphotericin (AmBisome) was effective. Only after the immune system had recovered did the infection disappear.